On Monday Hong Kong’s High Court ordered the main protest sites be cleared. Only a few die-hards remain from a movement that initially drew an estimated 100,000. And not a single meaningful concession has been won.

The banker, Rurik George Caton Jutting, a Cambridge graduate, came from London in 2013, one of thousands of expatriates who arrive in Hong Kong every year to pursue jobs in banking and burnish their resumes with Asia experience.